Dekker Laura Quotes & Sayings

I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it. — Laura Dekker

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you. — Laura Dekker

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it. — Laura Dekker

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored. — Laura Dekker

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest. — Laura Dekker

It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-assorted. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. Men and women marry fractionally, now a small and then a larger fraction ... Such a long and sweet fruit needs a long summer to ripen in and a long winter to season in. But real and happy marriage is one of those things so handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled it, a god, he might stop the world and hold it still now and then to feast his eyes on such a spectacle. — Theodore Parker

I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen. — Laura Dekker

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them. — Laura Dekker

Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action ... Magic is desire made real. — Deborah Harkness

Who would ever understand me? — Karen Marie Moning

I grew up sailing in the North Sea. — Laura Dekker

In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England. — Laura Dekker

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York. — Tory Burch

When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat. — Laura Dekker

Good for her, I guess. Cody's a conceited dick, but whatever makes her happy. — Jay Asher

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely. — Laura Dekker

Sipping tea
with glee
beneath a gooseberry tree.

I wish Alice were here.
Oh, my dear,
do not fear,
she will be. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A house is kind of scary. — Laura Dekker

I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine. — Laura Dekker

Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world. — Laura Dekker

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare. — Robert Morse

I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator. — Laura Dekker

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department. — Eric Maskin

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own. — Laura Dekker

All the media are horrible. — Laura Dekker

My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me. — Laura Dekker

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news. — Laura Dekker

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is. — Laura Dekker